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6 trends for 2026: Stablecoins, payments, and real-world assets
Stablecoins accounted for an estimated 46 trillion dollars in transaction volume last year, constantly hitting new all time highs. To put that into perspective: That’s more than 20x the volume of PayPal; close to 3x the volume of Visa (one of the largest payment networks in the world); and rapidly approaches the volume of ACH, the electronic network for financial transactions in the United States. Today, you can send a stablecoin in less than a second for less than a cent. What remains unsolved, however, is how to connect these digital dollars to the financial rails people actually use already every day — in ... (full story)